Elias hoxie



E. HOXIE.

Securing Wagon-Seats.

Patented June 4. 1867.

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ELIAS HOXIE, 0F MONTEZUMA, NEW YORK.

Letters Hatcnt 1V0. 65,384, dated June 4, 1867.

IMPROVEMENT IN SECURING WAGON-SEATS.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I. ELIAS HOXIE, of Montezuma, inv the county of Cayuga,and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in.Fastening \Vagon-Scats; and I do hereby declare that the following is afull, clear. and exact description thereof, which will enable othersskilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which-Figure 1 represents a side elevation, partly in section, of myapparatus.

Figure 2 is a detail view, to be hereinafter referred to.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts.

This invention relates to a new manner of securing wagomscats to theframe or box of the wagon, so that neither the sill of the seat nor thatof the frame is weakened by boring holes into it for the purpose ofsecuring the necessary bolts or screws. Moreover, the seat is verysecurely held down, and can he very easily removed, if desired Theinvention consists in the use of two or more rods or bolts, whichconnect the sill of the seat with the sill of the frame, one end ofwhich bolt is screwed into a nut secured in the seat, while it other endis provided with a head and fits into a slotted clamp attached to thesill of the frame.

A represents a cross-section of a wagon-sill, upon which a frame, B, iserected. C is the sill of the seat, of which there are two under theseat, and is placed upon the frame B, as shown. A nut, D, is secured tothe under side of the sillG, either by mcansof screws, or is let intoit, or is otherwise attached. To the top of the sill A is secured aplate, E, with bent-up sides, a a, and elevated top piece, 5. One of thesides a and half the cover I; are slotted, so that a rod, F, can passthrough the slot, and a wider slot is arranged at the lower part of theslotted side a for the head a of the bolt F to pass through, as shown infig. 2, which is an end viewof the plate E. The bolt F extends from thesill A to the sill G. Its upper end is screwed into the put I) after itslower end has passed through the slot in the plate E, and the rod canthen be screwed so that the head 0 rests against the lower surface ofthe plate 6, as shown in fig. 1. When the seat is to be removed, thebolt has to be screwed so that its head is lowered and can be passed outof the plate E, as is indicated in fig. 2. For easier operating the boltF, a handle, G, has been provided on the same. It is obvious that thenut can as well be secured to the sill A,and the plate E to the -sill O,as otherwise.

It will be noticed that for securing the parts together no holes have tobe made in the sillsA or C, or in otherplaees, and still the fasteningis very simple, substantial, and not expensive.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new, and. desire tosecure by Letters Patent- 1 Securing the seat to the wagon-sill by meansof two or more bolts, F, extending from the sill A to the sill C, sothat no holes are made into either for the said bolt to pass through,nor are they otherwise weakened, as set forth.

2. The bolt F, in combination with the nut D and slotted plate E, allmade and operating substantially as herein shown and described.

ELIAS HOXIE. Witnesses:

WM. F. McNAnARA, ALEX. F. Ronnnrs.

